Category Archives: City of Los Angeles

Post navigation

As we’ve seen before, in 1969 Union Pacific departed from the wrap-around color photo menus in order to celebrate its centennial with Howard Fogg paintings. Here are two menus with the same cover, showing construction of a bridge across the … Continue reading →

This cover photo looks very similar to the one on yesterday’s menu. But Pacific Grove is more than 350 miles north of Laguna Beach; the former being a little south of San Jose while the latter is a little south … Continue reading →

This City of Los Angeles menu has a beautiful cover photo showing an ocean-front garden in Southern California. Despite Google maps, I haven’t succeeded in finding the exact location of the photo, but I suspect it is in the northern … Continue reading →

This view of MacArthur Park is from the opposite direction of the one on the cover of the 1955 menu presented here a couple of weeks ago. Cars shown on the 1955 menu were from the 1930s and 1940s; cars … Continue reading →

Issued in October, 1965, for the City of Los Angeles, this lunch menu–unlike some of the dinner menus–still had an extensive a la carte side along with five complete meals (though not table d’hôte) on the other side. The meals … Continue reading →

Los Angeles’ iconic City Hall appears on the cover of this menu, which was used on trains 103 & 104, the City of Los Angeles. The menu is dated December 15, 1950, but it must have been used in February, … Continue reading →

We’ve already seen a Hoover Dam menu from 1946 (when UP still called it Boulder Dam), but the photo used on that menu showed numerous automobiles that clearly dated from the 1940s. For this 1968 menu, UP used a new … Continue reading →

This menu shows the Chapel of Transfiguration in Grand Teton National Park. Unusually for a church, this chapel has a window behind the alter so parishioners can enjoy a view of the Tetons in case the sermon is boring. As … Continue reading →

This menu cover features the rose garden at Los Angeles’ Exposition Park. Other parts of the 160-acre park include the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, a natural history museum, and (since this menu was printed), an African-American museum, and a science … Continue reading →

Nine years after the 48-page 1950 Along the Union Pacific booklet, UP published this brief (effectively six 4″x9″ panels printed back to back) brochure as the along-the-way guide for the City of Los Angeles. This brochure apparently also served as … Continue reading →

Post navigation

I claim no copyright for any of the PDFs of documents I've scanned and posted on this site. People may freely use these scans for research or other non-commercial purposes. The railroads that produced these documents may have their own copyright claims.